Light Colours - 3d pale violet
 

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Designed by : Edmund Dulac (head) and Eric Gill (frames).

Photogravure printed by Harrison & Sons in sheets of 240 (20 rows x 12).

Perforated 15 x 14

Watermarked - block GVIR and crown.

Issued 3 November, 1941.

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SINGLE STAMPS
Start date Watermark Varieties
3 November, 1941 upright

Specimen  /  Cancelled
COILS
Stock letter Start date Watermark Roll
C 1942 upright 960 stamps - bottom end first delivery join on 20th stamp
S June 1943 sideways 480 stamps - left side first delivery join on 12th stamp

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

Control Cylinder Perf Type Varieties
J41 21nd 21d A

 
21nd 21d nd - B / d - C  
- 21d B  
K42 21nd 21d A  
L42 21nd 21d A  
21nd 21d nd - B / d - C  
22nd 22d A  
22nd 22d nd - B / d - C  
M43 22nd 22d A  
N43 22nd 22d A  
25nd 25d A  
26nd 26d A  
O44 25nd 25d A  
25nd - G  
26nd 26d A  
29nd 29d nd - B / d - C  
P44 28nd 28d nd - B / d - C  
29nd 29d nd - B / d - C  
Q45 28nd 28d A  
28nd - G  
R45 27nd 27d A

Broken circle for value - cyl 27nd, row 18/2 /  retouched

Small projection of colour into margin just to the right of the cross on crown cyl 27nd, row 19/2
None 27nd 27d A

Broken circle for value - cyl 27nd, row 18/2 /  retouched
30nd 30d A  
- 30d D  
32nd 32d A  
34nd 34d A

Patch in hair and retouched background - cyl 34d, rows 9/10 / retouched

 

 

Overprints

'Bahrain - 3 anna' for use in Bahrain from 1948

'Kuwait - ½ anna' for use in Kuwait from 1948

'3 anna' (no country name) for use by British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia, from 1948

'M.E.F.' (Middle East Forces) from 1942 for use by British Forces in occupied Eritrea (1942), Italian Somaliland (1942), Tripolitania (1943), and the Dodecanese Islands (1945).

'E.A.F.' (East Africa Forces), in Somalia from 1943.

'B.M.A. Eritrea - 30 cents' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Eritrea' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Somalia - 30 cents' (British Military Administration in Somalia), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Somalia' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 6l' (British Military Administration + currency in Military Administration Lire), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Tripolitania' (British Administration), from 1950.

'Morocco Agencies' from 1949

'Tangier'

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